Q T Pi Fashions - Learning About Credit Card Use
Credit cards are convenient, user friendly, and at times dangerous. In this lesson students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 11/13/2002


Every Penny Counts
You know that five dollars you got for your birthday? There are so many things you can spend it on, aren’t there? A toy boat to sail on the p...
Grade: K-2    Published: 08/11/2003


Off to Interactive Island
This activity provides a fun way to explore concept of economic decision making. In the lesson, students are given a limited number of “tokens...
Grade: K-2    Published: 11/01/2000


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Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide
Grade: K-2   Published: 2001
9 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below.


Theme 3: Lesson 9 - We Decide to Spend
Students create want webs for a hamster and then for themselves. They experience spending money in exchange for goods and services when they use dimes to become consumers at a school carnival.
Theme 3: Lesson 8 - We Are Consumers
Students discover that they are consumers. As they fill their pockets with pictures of wants, students learn that consumers want both goods and services. As they try to help Nicholas choose a pet, a...
Theme 1: Lesson 3 - What Is Money?
This lesson focuses on two types of money -- paper money and coins. The students identify money and its value (ability to buy things) while participating in a money-matching activity. The students g...
Theme 3: Lesson 11 - Ads Make Us Spend
Students examine various forms of advertising and discover why companies advertise their products. They watch television commercials to answer questions about products advertised and consumer wants. ...
Theme 3: Lesson 10 - We Plan for Spending
Students construct traffic lights and use them in evaluating consumer decisions as planned or unplanned spending. Students discuss the costs and benefits of each decision.

Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's GuideYour Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
Grade: 7-adult   Published: 2004
1 of the 6 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below.


Section 3: Managing Credit
Participants will identify the advantages and disadvantages of using credit. Participants will recognize what credit is, what it costs, and the basic steps involved in obtaining credit. Participants...

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's GuideCapstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
3 of the 45 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 4: Lesson 20 - Why Helping Yourself Helps Others
Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding greed and self-interest. They use economic reasoning to analyze the mystery and reach a tentative explanation.
Unit 5: Lesson 24 - Government and the Environment
Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding the failure of the Endangered Species Act. They are introduced to the concepts of market failure and government failure....
Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Economic Reasoning: Why Are We A Nation of Couch Potatoes?
Students examine visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding exercise and diet. They use the Guide to Economic Reasoning to analyze the costs and benefits of decisions about diet and exercise. ...

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School EconomicsEconomics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
1 of the 14 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below.


Lesson 3 - Using Economic Reasoning To Solve Mysteries
Students ponder an economic mystery: Why do professional athletes, many of whom never finish college, earn far higher salaries than people who perform worthy services such as teachers and firefighter...

 

 
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